Summary Of There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury
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The authors, Bradbury and Hurst create similar complex characters in disparate ways. These characters help shape the depth of the themes, nature versus man and man vs man, in both texts.
In There will come soft rains, Bradbury uses personification and imagery to create an intricate character in the absence of humans. The house is a very prominent character in the story despite being an inanimate object. The house’s goal is to take care of the family that once lived in it, but it cannot complete that objective because they have all died. However, the house continues to protect itself, “… it (the house) had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old maidenly preoccupation which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.”(Bradbury, pg. 2). The word